Unlike various countries and organisations, including the World Health Organisation and the
European Parliament, the United Kingdom does not formally recognise obesity as a disease …

Assessing where we stand in 2017 is an interesting exercise, now that we are several
decades into the US obesity epidemic. On the one hand, there are several areas of …

Abstract Background This Obesity Medicine Association (OMA) Clinical Practice Statement
(CPS) is intended to provide clinicians an overview of 30 common obesity myths …

Both the American and Canadian Medical Associations have now declared obesity to be a
chronic medical disease, not unlike type 2 diabetes or hypertension (1, 2). However …

Introduction In June 2013, the American Medical Association (AMA), one of the most
influential healthcare organizations in the United States, voted to recognize obesity as a …

The 2014 AACE/ACE Consensus Conference on Obesity was convened to establish an
evidence base that could be used to develop a comprehensive plan to combat obesity. The …

© 1999 Canadian Medical Association adversely affected. Defining obesity without
standardized methodology has been a challenge. A standardized measure of body fat and …

ABSTRACT Objective/Methods The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists/
American College of Endocrinology “Consensus conference on obesity: building an …

The 2013 decision of the American Medical Association (AMA) to recognize obesity as a
complex, chronic disease that requires medical attention came as the result of developments …

The emerging obesity epidemic and accompanying health consequences led The Obesity
Society (TOS) in 2008 to publish a position paper defining obesity as a disease. Since then …